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From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India

IZA Journal of Labor Policy

Volume 10 (2020): Issue 1 (March 2020)

By: Somdeep Chatterjee

Open Access

|Mar 2020

Figures & Tables

BMI density by KGBV cohorts.Notes: The figure plots the density of BMI values. The area between the two vertical lines is the potential healthy zone, i.e., BMI between 18.5 and 25. The panel on the right plots the densities for the affected cohort, i.e., girls of lower castes in the affected age cohort, and the left-hand side panel includes everyone else.

Triple differences along gender and disadvantaged dummies by age.

Cohort convergences: difference-in-differences

	Body mass index (if BMI < 18.5)
	Females	Disadvantaged castes

	(1)	(2)
affected*disadvantaged	0.1984***
	(0.0716)
girl*affected		0.3916***
		(0.0427)
R²	0.47	0.44
Observations	17,177	25,799
Mean of dependent variable	15.56	15.41

Summary of identification strategy

Age in data set	6–10 years	11 12 13 14	15 16 17 18 19 20 21	22 and above
Age in policy year	0–3 years	4 5 6 7	8 9 10 11 12 13 14	15 and above
Exposure to policy	Not yet exposed	Currently exposed	Previously exposed	Never exposed

Probability of being in the healthy BMI zone

	KGBV	Non-KGBV	Δ

	(1)	(2)	(1)–(2)
Healthy BMI	0.3088	0.2311	0.0777
Standard deviation	0.0034	0.0015	H₀: Δ = 0
			p-value < 0.001

Comparison of states by mean BMI based on KGBV penetration

	KGBV grants received	No KGBV grants received	Δ
	(1)	(2)	(1)–(2)
Mean BMI (women aged 15–49 years)	20.283	20.987	–0.704
Standard deviation	0.334	0.204	H₀: Δ = 0
			p-value = 0.12

Effects of KGBV on health status: triple-difference methodology

	Extensive margin	Body mass index (if BMI < 18.5)
	BMI < 18.5	KGBV effect	Falsification

	(1)	(2)	(3)
KGBV	–0.0043	0.1901**	0.0742
	(0.0125)	(0.0922)	(0.1902)
R²	0.33	0.41	0.45
Observations	90,988	33,406	16,756
Mean of dependent variable	0.37	15.43	15.10

Robustness check: restrictive subsamples

	Body mass index
	Age < 30	Age < 25	Age < 22
	(1)	(2)	(3)
KGBV	0.1901**	0.1832*	0.2131**
	(0.0922)	(0.0951)	(0.0985)
R²	0.41	0.41	0.39
Observations	33,406	30,723	29,389

Summary statistics

	Mean	Standard deviation

	(1)	(2)
BMI	18.79	13.22
BMI (if underweight)	15.43	1.94
Age 11–22 years (=1, if yes)	0.51	0.49
SC/ST (=1, if yes)	0.74	0.44
Female (=1, if yes)	0.49	0.49
Age (in years)	17.68	7.08
Education (among males; highest number of years)	7.97	4.90
Education (among females; highest number of years)	5.66	5.21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajolp-2020-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2193-9004

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Language: English

Published on: Mar 24, 2020

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Keywords:

education for girls,

affirmative action

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Political economics,

Microeconomics,

Macroeconomics,

Economic policy,

Mathematics and statistics for economists,

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